TeaTime/Talk

SunirShah -- Sun Sep 13 03:00:53 2009

My criticism of TeaTime is straightforward. You've planned a hundred steps ahead of where you are. Where are the people? Focus on building TheAudience (aka the market), rather than building the technology.

: Thanks! You started me down the path of thinking about what I really need from TeaTime right now -- I'm currently involved in four small-scale international collaborative efforts, and I'd like to improve on current combination of special-purpose wikis (to each of which I'm the main contributor) and email I'm using right now... and I know a few other people (my brother in particular) who might be interested in such a tool. -- NathanielThurston

NathanielThurston -- Wed Sep 16 15:49:46 2009

Upon reflection, my feeling is that I don't need anything special -- the only change I would really make right now is to start using a RSS aggregator so that I don't have to choose between checking all of my micro-wikis daily or settling infrequent updates.

Another TeaTime-like project: http://friendfeed.com/dango-project. It has the advantage of actually being implemented in beta form, and it seems like it's well on the way to making a federated social network a reality.

NathanielThurston -- Wed Sep 23 07:27:22 2009

Sunir, the reason I planned so much with TeaTime is that I needed confidence that the communities I enjoy the most will be able to scale as needed without destroying their character. I guess it boils down to "don't start something you won't want to finish".